07.3.2009 | 11:32 am | Casino.co.uk
What is the definition of irony? Rain on your wedding day? A free ride when you”ve already paid? Or a Russian man winning an international poker tournament just as the game is effectively banned in his own country?
Well that’’s what happened last weekend in the Czech Republic, when Vladislav Shuravin took out the competition to scoop the title at the European Masters of Poker Prague.
The Russian bagged €39,675 (£34,000) for his efforts out of a total prize pool of €163,000, generated from a field of 163 players.
Petr Pesko of the Czech Republic came in second, while Sweden’’s Henrik Johansson took third place.
The European Masters of Poker will make its fourth stop on the tour in Barcelona from July 29th to August 1st.
A new law came into effect this week which forced the closure of tens of thousands of casinos across Russia, banishing the venues to remote areas eons away from the capital Moscow.
07.2.2009 | 10:56 am | Casino.co.uk
Though it was only launched just over a week ago at the World Series of Poker (WSOP), the Poker Players Alliance’’s (PPA’’s) campaign to legalise online the game in the US seems to be gathering pace.
It is believed that the PPA has already collected almost a quarter of a million signatures for the petition, which has been designed to defend Americans” right to play online poker.
The petition is being circulated as part of the PPA’’s National Poker Week, which runs from July 19th to 15th, and it will be delivered to the US congress at the end of the week to lobby for the ban on online gambling to be lifted.
But with over one million registered members, it seems the PPA can expect to pick up plenty more signatures where the 200,000 collected so far came from.
Especially since US newspaper West Virginia Gazette said the game is now so popular that is it "as American as apple pie".
07.1.2009 | 10:30 am | Casino.co.uk
Russian casinos have been dealt a bad hand by the country’’s government, which has brought in a ban forcing tens of thousands of the venues to close.
From today (July 1st) casinos can only be operated in four defined areas of the country, most of which are thousands of miles away from the capital Moscow.
There were more than 500 licensed casinos in Moscow before the ban came into effect at midnight, but now up to 300,000 people across the country face the prospect of being out of work.
Michael Boettcher, the founder of Moscow casino operator Storm International said the move had "killed the industry overnight".
"It’’s like closing all the five-star restaurants in London because you”re eating too much, and saying that if you do want to have them, you”ll have to relocate to North Wales. Who’’s going to go? Nobody."
While it may be a little harsh to compare North Wales to the barren wastelands of Siberia, Mr Boettecher does have a point.
There have even been suggestions that there will now be race for casinos to rebrand themselves as poker halls, as this is classed as a sport, and not a game of chance, in Russia.
07.1.2009 | 10:30 am | Casino.co.uk
Russian casinos have been dealt a bad hand by the country’’s government, which has brought in a ban forcing tens of thousands of the venues to close.
From today (July 1st) casinos can only be operated in four defined areas of the country, most of which are thousands of miles away from the capital Moscow.
There were more than 500 licensed casinos in Moscow before the ban came into effect at midnight, but now up to 300,000 people across the country face the prospect of being out of work.
Michael Boettcher, the founder of Moscow casino operator Storm International said the move had "killed the industry overnight".
"It’’s like closing all the five-star restaurants in London because you”re eating too much, and saying that if you do want to have them, you”ll have to relocate to North Wales. Who’’s going to go? Nobody."
While it may be a little harsh to compare North Wales to the barren wastelands of Siberia, Mr Boettecher does have a point.
There have even been suggestions that there will now be race for casinos to rebrand themselves as poker halls, as this is classed as a sport, and not a game of chance, in Russia.
07.1.2009 | 10:30 am | Casino.co.uk
Russian casinos have been dealt a bad hand by the country’’s government, which has brought in a ban forcing tens of thousands of the venues to close.
From today (July 1st) casinos can only be operated in four defined areas of the country, most of which are thousands of miles away from the capital Moscow.
There were more than 500 licensed casinos in Moscow before the ban came into effect at midnight, but now up to 300,000 people across the country face the prospect of being out of work.
Michael Boettcher, the founder of Moscow casino operator Storm International said the move had "killed the industry overnight".
"It’’s like closing all the five-star restaurants in London because you”re eating too much, and saying that if you do want to have them, you”ll have to relocate to North Wales. Who’’s going to go? Nobody."
While it may be a little harsh to compare North Wales to the barren wastelands of Siberia, Mr Boettecher does have a point.
There have even been suggestions that there will now be race for casinos to rebrand themselves as poker halls, as this is classed as a sport, and not a game of chance, in Russia.
07.1.2009 | 10:30 am | Casino.co.uk
Russian casinos have been dealt a bad hand by the country’’s government, which has brought in a ban forcing tens of thousands of the venues to close.
From today (July 1st) casinos can only be operated in four defined areas of the country, most of which are thousands of miles away from the capital Moscow.
There were more than 500 licensed casinos in Moscow before the ban came into effect at midnight, but now up to 300,000 people across the country face the prospect of being out of work.
Michael Boettcher, the founder of Moscow casino operator Storm International said the move had "killed the industry overnight".
"It’’s like closing all the five-star restaurants in London because you”re eating too much, and saying that if you do want to have them, you”ll have to relocate to North Wales. Who’’s going to go? Nobody."
While it may be a little harsh to compare North Wales to the barren wastelands of Siberia, Mr Boettecher does have a point.
There have even been suggestions that there will now be race for casinos to rebrand themselves as poker halls, as this is classed as a sport, and not a game of chance, in Russia.
07.1.2009 | 10:30 am | Casino.co.uk
Russian casinos have been dealt a bad hand by the country’’s government, which has brought in a ban forcing tens of thousands of the venues to close.
From today (July 1st) casinos can only be operated in four defined areas of the country, most of which are thousands of miles away from the capital Moscow.
There were more than 500 licensed casinos in Moscow before the ban came into effect at midnight, but now up to 300,000 people across the country face the prospect of being out of work.
Michael Boettcher, the founder of Moscow casino operator Storm International said the move had "killed the industry overnight".
"It’’s like closing all the five-star restaurants in London because you”re eating too much, and saying that if you do want to have them, you”ll have to relocate to North Wales. Who’’s going to go? Nobody."
While it may be a little harsh to compare North Wales to the barren wastelands of Siberia, Mr Boettecher does have a point.
There have even been suggestions that there will now be race for casinos to rebrand themselves as poker halls, as this is classed as a sport, and not a game of chance, in Russia.
07.1.2009 | 10:30 am | Casino.co.uk
Russian casinos have been dealt a bad hand by the country’’s government, which has brought in a ban forcing tens of thousands of the venues to close.
From today (July 1st) casinos can only be operated in four defined areas of the country, most of which are thousands of miles away from the capital Moscow.
There were more than 500 licensed casinos in Moscow before the ban came into effect at midnight, but now up to 300,000 people across the country face the prospect of being out of work.
Michael Boettcher, the founder of Moscow casino operator Storm International said the move had "killed the industry overnight".
"It’’s like closing all the five-star restaurants in London because you”re eating too much, and saying that if you do want to have them, you”ll have to relocate to North Wales. Who’’s going to go? Nobody."
While it may be a little harsh to compare North Wales to the barren wastelands of Siberia, Mr Boettecher does have a point.
There have even been suggestions that there will now be race for casinos to rebrand themselves as poker halls, as this is classed as a sport, and not a game of chance, in Russia.
07.1.2009 | 10:30 am | Casino.co.uk
Russian casinos have been dealt a bad hand by the country’’s government, which has brought in a ban forcing tens of thousands of the venues to close.
From today (July 1st) casinos can only be operated in four defined areas of the country, most of which are thousands of miles away from the capital Moscow.
There were more than 500 licensed casinos in Moscow before the ban came into effect at midnight, but now up to 300,000 people across the country face the prospect of being out of work.
Michael Boettcher, the founder of Moscow casino operator Storm International said the move had "killed the industry overnight".
"It’’s like closing all the five-star restaurants in London because you”re eating too much, and saying that if you do want to have them, you”ll have to relocate to North Wales. Who’’s going to go? Nobody."
While it may be a little harsh to compare North Wales to the barren wastelands of Siberia, Mr Boettecher does have a point.
There have even been suggestions that there will now be race for casinos to rebrand themselves as poker halls, as this is classed as a sport, and not a game of chance, in Russia.
07.1.2009 | 10:30 am | Casino.co.uk
Russian casinos have been dealt a bad hand by the country’’s government, which has brought in a ban forcing tens of thousands of the venues to close.
From today (July 1st) casinos can only be operated in four defined areas of the country, most of which are thousands of miles away from the capital Moscow.
There were more than 500 licensed casinos in Moscow before the ban came into effect at midnight, but now up to 300,000 people across the country face the prospect of being out of work.
Michael Boettcher, the founder of Moscow casino operator Storm International said the move had "killed the industry overnight".
"It’’s like closing all the five-star restaurants in London because you”re eating too much, and saying that if you do want to have them, you”ll have to relocate to North Wales. Who’’s going to go? Nobody."
While it may be a little harsh to compare North Wales to the barren wastelands of Siberia, Mr Boettecher does have a point.
There have even been suggestions that there will now be race for casinos to rebrand themselves as poker halls, as this is classed as a sport, and not a game of chance, in Russia.
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